From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60526
Date: 2008-09-30
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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>> I suppose people realized cereals could be eaten before agriculture
>> came into being.
>> Arnaud
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>
> No, people realized cereals could be eaten only several millenia after
> agriculture came into being. In the meanwhile, it became a problem to
> find places to store the ever growing harvests which were considered
> inedible.
> Torsten
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And what did the poor guys eat for three millions years ?
They licked stones and drank hot water !?
Your statement is absurd.
I suppose some inferences can be made about what people ate
with the marks left on the teeth and maybe isotopic contents of their bones.
Arnaud
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>> Personally, I think the PIE/Semitic split happened around -25000,
>> if you believe in glottochronology.
>> Arnaud
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>
> Not yours.
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And what is your counter-proposal ?
Arnaud
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>
> Textbook stuff.
> Pigs and dogs were first domesticated in China. They are typical
> Austronesian animals (PAustronesian beRek " pig", Latin porcus).
> European/Middle East millet is genetically indistinguishable from that
> of the Far East.
> The IE name for rye is suspiciously similar to that of rice.
> Torsten
>
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We have already discussed the word for rye.
and it is not widespread in the IE family.
Your statement about pigs and dogs is complete hogwash.
Genetic studies of dogs suggest they are separated from wolfes for about 100
000 years.
Their morphological shape changes when people became sedentary
by they were domesticated before.
Arnaud